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Set in stone: New approaches to Neolithic monuments in Scotland

edited by Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett

As its title might suggest, this volume sets out to present a new view of Scotland's Neolithic as seen via its monumental structures. The papers brought together here came out of a research day at Cardiff University's School of History and Archaeology in January 2002 and cover a diverse number of topics. They raise questions of ancestry and worldview, and highlight the amount that can be done in examining the settings of monuments.
128p, b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2005)

ISBN-13: 978-1-84217-143-1
ISBN-10: 1-84217-143-7

Paperback. Publishers price US $70.00, DBBC Price US $19.98
This book is generally in stock.

Review Quotes

"an attractively produced voume, full of thought-provoking ideas and well illustrated."

Anna Ritchie
History Scotland (2005)

"a carefully written, well-illustrated account, and a good buy."

C R Wickham-Jones
ANTIQUITY (2005)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Foreword (Alasdair Whittle)
Not my type: discourses in monumentality (Kenneth Brophy)
Island views: the settings of the chambered cairns of southern Orkney (Vicki Cummings and Amelia Pannett)
Ancestry, farming and the changing architecture of the Clyde cairns of south-west Scotland (Gordon Noble)
The chambered cairns of South Uist (Vicki Cummings, Cole Henley and Niall Sharples)
A view from within: monumental spaces in the Neolithic of Caithness (Amelia Pannett)
The excavation of a chambered cairn at Leaval, South Uist (Vicki Cummings and Niall Sharples)
Fishing for meaning: lived space and the early Neolithic of Orkney (Fraser Stuart)
The 'henge' and 'hengiform' in Scotland (G. J. Barclay)
Choreographed monumentality: recreating the centre of other worlds at the monumental complex of Callanish, western Lewis (Cole Henley)
Between a rock and a hard place: rock art and mimesis in Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland (Andy Jones)


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